Sulma — girls' name
413 babies named Sulma in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Sulma was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Sulma in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sulma
The Social Security Administration has registered 413 babies named Sulma between 1957 and 2020, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sulma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sulma performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 138 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Sulma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 78 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sulma in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sulma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 413 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sulma at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sulma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1957
- Peak year (1990)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
413 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 26 births in a single year.
Sulma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 138 births that decade — 33% of Sulma's all-time total
Sulma decade highlights
- Peak decade 138 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Sulma's strongest decade
138 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Sulma by state
Where Sulma concentrates geographically — total births since 1957
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 78 | 18.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 14 | 3.4% |
| #3 | New York | | 5 | 1.2% |
78 of 413 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 18.9% of nationwide
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
- New York 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 18.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1957–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.